Blow-Up may have been the peak of auteur-driven cinema in Britain in 1966, but the year also represented something of an annus mirabilis for Hammer…
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With his monster killed in a vat of acid, this direct sequel to The Curse of Frankenstein (1957) has Baron Victor Frankenstein (Peter Cushing) escaping…
Following Dracula AD 1972 came Hammer’s modern dress entry in the Dracula series. The Satanic Rites of Dracula is a science fiction/horror/thriller hybrid lacking in Hammer’s usual Gothic…
During the English Civil War in 1648, King Charles I is captured by Roundhead forces led by the tyrant Colonel Judd (Lionel Jeffries) and his…
Christopher Lee thought this was his weakest Dracula sequel, but Hammer horror fans like it because the Count has more screen time here than in…
“Blood Island” is the grim nickname given to a compound in the Malayan jungle where British prisoners of war are made to work in the…
This Hammer fantasy adventure was based on H. Rider Haggard’s classic novel. The story, which begins in Jerusalem in 1918, concerns three men – Major Holly…
British jungle guide and big game hunter David Marchand (Michael Latimer) is on safari in Africa when he is captured by a tribe of natives…
This early low-budget British sci-fi offering from Hammer Films tells the story of young American science engineer Dr Stephen Mitchell (Howard Duff), who is accused…
Shy, dowdy and socially awkward Brenda Thompson (Rita Tushingham) writes naive children’s stories to amuse herself. Stifled and desperate for a man of her own,…
Penny Applebee (Susan Strasberg, daughter of method acting guru Lee Strasberg) grew up with her mother after her parents divorced when she was quite young.…
Dracula is back. He’s resurrected by the conniving of one of his disciples, Lord Courtley (Ralph Bates), who seeks three items – a black cloak,…
A group of German prisoners of war – Eric Koertner (Jack Palance), Karl Wirtz (Jeff Chandler), Wolfgang Sulke (Wes Addy), Franz Loeffler (Robert Cornthwaite), Peter…
This Hammer production was a spin-off from the seven-episode BBC comedy series of the same name, which also starred Raymond Huntley as Mr Emanuel Holroyd…
Excommunicated priest Father Michael Rainer (Christopher Lee) heads a satanic cult called “The Children of the Lord” which hides its dark purpose of rearing innocent…
In 19th Century Europe, identical 19-year-old orphaned twins Maria (Mary Collinson) and Frieda (Madeleine Collinson) Gellhorn arrive in the small village of Karnstein. One of…
Dr Henry Jekyll (Paul Massie) is a dull, bookish scientist who spends more time with his lab animals testing theories of alternate personalities than with…
In one of the longest pre-credit sequences, we follow a bucolic family scene in 19th century Serbia dissolve to terror as the wife and child…
The Vampire Lovers was Hammer’s first and only co-production with Hollywood’s leading horror specialists – American International – who had been responsible for most of…
Czechoslovakian beauty Olinka Berova is taken for the reincarnation of novelist H Rider Haggard’s Ayesha (as immortalised by Ursula Andress) in this mediocre sequel to…